Trump rethinking American support for United Nations: President Donald Trump has already pulled back $1 billion in funding from the United Nations (U.N.) and has told Congress he has plans to revoke another $1 billion. Since bureaucrats always and everywhere are fans of malicious compliance, U.N. officials signaled that human rights programs would be some of the first to go. But now The New York Times headlines are trying to guilt the U.S. into…I dunno…spending infinite sums of money? Never pulling out or reevaluating the use of the diplomacy organization?
Of course, countries run by authoritarians seek to step into the breach. "Qatar, with its history of labor abuses, is offering to host some of the offices of the U.N. workers' rights agency," reports the Times. "Russia has proposed cutt